SEWA Cooperative Federation works with informal women workers’ cooperatives-collectives as they form, grow, and adapt over time. This includes supporting collective organisation, strengthening leadership and governance, and enabling enterprises to engage with markets and external systems.

Across sectors, cooperatives navigate a range of practical questions—how to take decisions collectively, how to sustain leadership, how to respond to disruptions, and how to remain viable in changing conditions. Our work engages with these questions in practice.

Each area below reflects a different way of working with women’s collective enterprises, from building leadership and institutions, to strengthening market engagement and contributing to policy discussions.